Record Breaking Sunday...But still disappointing - 28 de mayo 2018
Well it´s been another week somehow. They are flying by. This is the last week of the transfer, which is sad because it´s been a great time with Elder Chamberlain.
To start off I guess I´ll talk about my cliff hangers from last week. So la familia Rosales, the big family with 7 kids. We have been through a lot of things with them and I can´t even begin to tell you all the details or I´d be here all day. The short version is that about 3 weeks ago we had the baptismal interviews for the 2 chicos old enough to be baptized. They passed easily and the baptism was going to be the next day, but it didn´t end up happening because they said they didn´t feel ready and they wanted more time. We got the feeling it was because the parents were putting doubts into their heads. Well we tried to pass by several times the following week, but they were never there. Which was weird because they were always home before. We figured that it was because it had rained a ton that week and maybe they had been staying somewhere else to stay dry. Anyway, we finally found them last week. We clapped several times but no one came out. Someone was definitely there tho, so we were kinda confused. Well we tried again a few days later, and this time we saw some of the little kids playing outside the house. So we clapped and asked them if there parents were home. They all ran inside, and we were like, finally, we´re going to be able to talk with them. But we waited quite a while and no one came out. Then we heard the dad´s voice coming from inside the house. We listened and realized he was praying. But it was a very Evangelico prayer, if you know what those are like, and we are pretty sure he had gathered all his kids for it. It was kinda hard to hear what he was saying but we heard some words very clearly. Basically he was asking the Lord to ¨echar estes diablos de mi casa, y protegernos de su maldad¨. He said a lot more stuff but that´s basically all I could hear. So we just decided to leave. It was basically like a punch to the gut. Elder Nash and I had spent many, many nights with them, as well as Elder Chamberlain. I´m not sure what happened in the week and a half we couldn´t find them, but I guess it wasn´t good. We haven´t been back since.
And then last sunday(not yesterday), we had an interesting experience in sacrament meeting. Elder Giraldo was giving one of the talks and he fainted right before he could end it. He suddenly stopped talking and his eyes went super wide. Then he started to topple over but luckily the bishop and first counselor were able to catch him and they ended up having to carry him out of there. Everyone was freaking out. He woke up after about 30 seconds though and he was fine. All the moms starting asking him a bunch of questions like if he ate breakfast or not. (We didn´t because we never have time on sundays, we´re usually out the door looking for investigators by 7 or 7:30.) Well once they found out we didn´t eat breakfast they all started scolding us and telling us that we don´t eat well enough. So yesterday a bunch of old ladies brought a bunch of stuff with them to church for us to eat haha.
Speaking of yesterday, we got 11 investigators in church yesterday. Elder Chamberlain´s record was 9 so we were able to beat it. Also, the other elders had 8 in church so we had 19 investigators in total. But unfortunately, the 3 that we really needed, a Bolivian family that we were going to baptize this week, didn´t come. So I guess we won´t be having a baptism this week. It sucked because we figured they would for sure come, so we spent our time looking for our other investigators. There´s always next week I guess though.
A couple nights ago we were riding through the street as we passed this little kid that was probably like 8 and out of nowhere this big dog came and bit him right in the leg. We got off our bikes and went to see if he was ok. He started crying and screaming. We looked at his leg and there were 4 huge holes in his leg and blood was streaming down. We carried him to his house and gave him to his parents. They bandaged him up and we left. Hopefully he´s all good. The 25 de mayo is a pretty big holiday in Argentina and the ward had a Locro in the capilla and we went to it. It was pretty cool. We sang the Argentine national anthem which was cool, but it´s kinda a weird song.
Well we´ve had a lot of adventures this week but that will probably do for this email.
Chaucito,
-Elder Shelton
¨echar estes diablos de mi casa, y protegernos de su maldad¨ = "remove these devils from my home and protect us from their evil"
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